> The problem is people don't test until 2.6.whatever-final goes out. > Nothing will change that. > > And the day Linus releases we always get a pile of "missing MODULE_EXPORT()" > type bug reports that are one liner fixes. Those fixes will not be seen by > users until the next 2.6.x rev comes out and right now that takes months > which is rediculious for such simple fixes.

So what was broken with the 2.6.8.1 type of 'hotfix kernel' release ?Apart from needing to do the 2.6.8.1 -> 2.6.8 -> 2.6.9 transition which confused some people, it seemed to be easily understood for what it was,and solved the same problem as this new proposal.